Answers to Common Questions
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Is it possible to change the thickness/width of bars/candles without zooming in our out on a chart? |
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Yes. Open your preference window for the chart
(double-clicking in horizontal scale at bottom of chart will get you
there). In the "General" tab, you’ll find the “Pixels/Bar” setting,
which controls the number of pixels allocated to each bar. Instead of a
single number, you can manually enter text in the following format: X:Y The Y will actually control how thick (horizontally wide) in pixels, the bar/candle is drawn, while X will control the space allocated for each bar. Y can be larger or smaller than X. If Y is larger larger than X, then the bars/candles will overlap. If Y is smaller than X, there will be more space between each bar/candle. If you want your bars drawn big, and your current chart is setup with a pixels/bar of 10, you might try... 10:20 ...for starters, and go from there, as seen in the preference window below:
Once you’ve setup your pixels/bar in this manner, you can manually adjust the thickness of the bars (Y) from the keyboard using “Shift-Up Arrow or Shift-Down Arrow” keys. You can control the space allocated to each bar (zoom in and out) using the Up and Down Arrow keys. Once you've setup your chart with a specific bar/candle width in this way, it will stick even when zooming in and out. In order to revert your chart back to standard behavior, just setup Pixels/Bar with a single number again. This chart shows an example of 10:20 candles...
While this chart shows an example of 20:10 bars...
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